Can’t think of much I’d rather look at than a golden eagle – doesn’t have to be in flight either! The images of the golden eagle in flight were taken here on our place in western Wyoming this morning, and the eagle feasting with its magpie neighbor was taken on Friday a few miles from the …
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Around the ‘hood
Seems like I have encounters with various wildlife every day while we are on our winter range near the house. One of the pastures we use is in a riverbottom full of Cottonwoods, so I recently witnessed my Central Asian Ovcharka tree a raccoon right in the middle of the bedded sheep herd. He and …
I’m OK!
I am getting some vague hints that people are everything from worried to flat- out saying I am in bad shape– not from any who have actually been here like Paul or Rebecca, but by those who hear rumors from those that speculate or ??? I am here to say: such rumors are EMPHATICALLY not …
From the Commonplace Book
“…one must never be deterred from doing what one wants for lack of money don’t you agree?” (Nancy Mitford to Robert Byron) On the late President Turkmenbashi of Turkmenistan:“Stories trickling out of the country described a tyrant with the flair of Liberace and the savagery of Stalin”. (Eric Enno Tamm, The Horse that Leaps Though …
Pakistan
Ali Hasnain hunts in a slightly grander and very traditional way– on a friend’s estate, with beaters! (His rookie of the year, Sonya, is listening alertly for them in the pic). This hunt took place in a watery oasis in desert country. We hope to get more reports from him including on falconry if he …
Scotland
Mark McBride may take the largest and most varied bag of any of us as he does pest control and other hunting on neighbors’ Scottish estates. This day saw the initiation of Taik’s niece Nura to ferreting for rabbits. She caught on quickly– no surprise. Nura (the name of the eagle & tazi town in …
Friends in action
New Mexico, Scotland, Pakistan– everywhere friends with dog relatives and near- relatives seem to be having wonderful seasons. Starting close to home, Daniela attended an informal meet where, as she put it: “…every hound in the field that day was descendant from Libby & Steve’s hounds, including these two 5 month puppies, Lily & Lola, …
Visitor
John Davila, one of my oldest and closest friends in New Mexico, is a former rodeo cowboy and a rancher with land- grant roots who lives where he was born, many long dirt- road miles south of the pavement in Catron County. These days he raises half- Japanese grass- fed cattle, another story, and manages …
A Merlin
Up in Colorado Anne Price (of the REF) and her female merlin Larkyn have also been busy. “… a week after almost losing her, my gal did the craziest thing I’ve ever seen her do in 3.25 seasons of flying her: she went and robbed/stole a starling from a wild female prairie falcon! It was …
One Owl
Nate and Nan are in their second season with their tame, fascinating, and often frustrating great horned owl. The bird does take game, and it makes for an expansion of “hawking” hours for two busy people (Nan’s store here) and great pictures, but as Nate said: “.. I had a horned owl kick my ass …